🛠️ Active Directory Automation & CSV Optimization

This repository features a suite of PowerShell scripts designed to automate and optimize Active Directory (AD) management through data-driven workflows. By leveraging CSV files, these tools eliminate manual GUI tasks, reduce human error, and ensure consistent object creation across the domain.

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🚀 Key Features

• AddUserAd.ps1: Performs bulk user creation with optimized attribute mapping (Department, Title, OU, etc.) directly from CSV data.
• AddGroupAd.ps1: Handles the automated creation of Security and Distribution groups.
• AddOrganizationAd.ps1: Manages the structural hierarchy of the AD by generating Organizational Units (OUs) from optimized paths.
• AddUsertoGroup.ps1: Bridges users and groups by processing membership assignments in bulk.
• ServerStatus.ps1: A diagnostic utility to check Domain Controller health and connectivity.
• CommandLet.ps1: The core engine of the project. It centralizes shared functions, logging, and error-handling logic to keep other scripts clean and modular.

💡 Why This Project? (The DevOps Value)

Instead of manual "point-and-click" administration, this project applies Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to Windows Server management:

• Scalability: Create 10 or 1,000 users in the same amount of time.
• Consistency: Every object is created with the exact same parameters defined in the CSV.
• Modularity: The CommandLet.ps1 script acts as a library, making the code easier to maintain and update.

📋 Prerequisites

1. Active Directory PowerShell Module (RSAT) installed.
2. Administrative Privileges on the Domain Controller.
3. CSV Files encoded in UTF-8 to support special characters and international names.

🛠️ Usage

1. Prepare your CSV

Ensure your CSV headers match the script expectations. Example for AddUserAd.ps1: SamAccountName,GivenName,Surname,OU,Password

2. Execution

Run scripts from an elevated PowerShell terminal:

./AddUserAd.ps1 -Path "./data/employees_january.csv"